This article claims that the Mexican government is going through a process of accelerated institutional deterioration that is leading to the establishment of paralegality as a working framework, allowing among other things, the symbiosis of the formal, informal and criminal economies. Taking as a point of departure the establishment of the strategy of Hemispheric Security in the Americas, we contend that this framework has resulted in the local application of social control techniques derived from both discursive practices of everyday life and the judicial-legal system. From this geopolitical stance, the war on drugs combined with advanced control instruments are being put in place, contributing to the consolidation of a paralegal state, grounded to the criminal economy and blending the economic, social and political interests of an elite.